1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law host Jun 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: Grusso discusses a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump and 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: his staff for using mobile messaging services that automatically delete 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: messages after they're read. She speaks to Andrew Harris, a 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: legal reporter for Bloomberg News. Andrew, what does federal law 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: require as far as emails and texts of the presidents? Well, 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: this is in part an outgrowth of Watergate. We've heard 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Watergate talked about a lot in the context of the 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: Trump presidency, but one of the things that it gave 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: birth to is the Presidential Records Act, which requires retention 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: to records at least as long as the president deems 13 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: that they're necessary. But before they can be the leader, 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: they have to ask an archivist if they can be deleted. Um. So, 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: the use of an email app or an email like 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: app that automatically erases messages after they've been read. Uh, 17 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: if true, would fly in the face of those rules. Now, 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: how does crew know or suspect that these are being deleted? Well, 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: that's a fair question, and even Crew concedes that they 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: are going off of press reports from the Washington Post 21 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: and The Wall Street Journal asserting uh that sources say 22 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: that White House staffers are using these apps? Which apps 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: are they allegedly using? One of them is called confide, 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: which apparently boasts that if you wave your finger across 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: the text, it magically evaporates, and another one that's more 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: commonly known called signal uh, for which you can set 27 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: a time after which the message will in good morning, 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: Mr Phelps fashion self destruct. Now we cannot ignore Trump's 29 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: use of Twitter, and crew makes claims about his deleting 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: posts on his personal Twitter account. Does that count for 31 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: the record retention? Well, they say it does, and for 32 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: you know, the president, this is his preferred way of 33 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: communicating with the masses. He goes, you know, or not 34 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: only over our heads, but over the heads of media generally, 35 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: and talks right to the people. But apparently on occasion 36 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: um corfeffe aside, he will delete one of his messages. 37 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: It's things that we all do from time to time, 38 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: but we're not all subject to the same rules and 39 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: regulations about presidential communicates as the president, that is. Andrew Harris, 40 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: a legal reporter for Bloomberg News, speaking to Bloomberg Law 41 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: host to and crosso. You can listen to Bloomberg Law 42 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: weekdays at one pm while Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio. 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: Uber has hired a law for him to investigate claims 44 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: by a woman raped by a driver in India. According 45 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: to a person familiar with the matter, Almilveney Admers also 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: will defend against the lawsuit you filed last week. The 47 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: woman says that Uber executives violated her privacy by obtaining 48 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: her medical report. 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